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Voyages of Discovery: The Cinema of Frederick Wiseman

English

By (author): Barry Keith Grant

Frederick Wiseman is Americas foremost chronicler of public institutions. His films have focused on city, state, and local governments; hospitals; asylums; creative organizations and museums; schools; libraries; and more. In recent years, Wisemans work has reached a new level of popularity, with films such as In Jackson Heights (2015), Monrovia, Indiana (2018), and City Hall (2020) all earning widespread acclaim.

Voyages of Discovery is the definitive account of Wisemans career, offering a comprehensive analysis of the work of the leading documentary filmmaker in the United States. In this updated edition, Barry Keith Grant adds new material exploring the documentarians works since the 1990s, discussing every film in Wisemans remarkable sixty-year career. He examines the core concerns running across Wisemans work from the early films, which focus on documenting institutional failure, through an expanding interest in cultural institutions and ideology, to a blossoming embrace of democracy in later films. He pays particular attention to Wisemans strategies for involving and implicating the spectator in the institutional processes the films document. Grant also places Wiseman within the history of the documentary and other traditions of American art and considers the relationship between documentary film and authorship. Voyages of Discovery is an important book for anyone interested in Wisemans work or how documentary film can reveal the fabric of our shared civic life. See more
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  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 16 May 2023
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780231206228

About Barry Keith Grant

Barry Keith Grant is professor emeritus of film studies and popular culture at Brock University. His many books include Film Genre: From Iconography to Ideology (Wallflower 2007) and most recently 100 American Horror Films (2022).

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